[systemd-devel] Illegal CPUID instruction causes systemd core dump

[Christopher Cox]

On 12/28/2017 01:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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...snippity

 >> Am 28.12.2017 um 20:07 schrieb tedheadster:
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>> The Linux kernel still supports the 486 so we have to code around this
>> case, even if it is ancient hardware
> 
> don't get me wrong - i am for 15 years now in the IT and my first PC in 
> 1999 was a i686
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> i don't see how a brand new systemd and a mordern userland is supposed 
> to run on 20 years or older hardware where nearly eveyr distribution 
> these days is i586 or i686 only or starts to drop 32bit at all
> 
> if you have that old hardware normally you don't use leading edge 
> software on it and as a user (not systemd developer) i would love to see 
> erevry single line of code for 20 years old hardware is removed to make 
> it cleaner and in doubt faster on recent systems

While 386 was dropped in kernel 3.8, I have no idea of the plans to drop 
486 support.  But the assertion about distros and 32bit is certainly true.

Could be quite frustrating trying to obtain "old stuff" for testing...